March and St. Patrick's specials from Reinwald's Bakery

March 2012 Newsletter

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March Specials

Reinwald's is going green for March. Mint green that is. Our first special is an Individual Mint Chocolate Chip Mousse. Made with chocolate cake and a mint mousse with chocolate chips. Next up is a Chocolate Mint Cupcake.

Due to the high demand we will be bringing back last month's Chocolate Strawberry Cream Cake.

Chocolate cake topped with vanilla custard and then covered with fresh strawberries.

Lastly we have our famous German Rye Bread.

Perfect for any sandwich, get one today with or without caraway seeds.

Greetings!

I have heard everyone say that February has flown by; it is such a short month. C'mon, with leap year it is only one day short. Perhaps it is because last year we had a winter that never ended. This year it is turning out to be the winter that never was.

As we head into March, I see people looking forward to St. Patrick's Day, St. Joseph's Day, the parade in Huntington, and the Easter Holiday. People are preparing for the change of season and more importantly a change in attitude. I see people more positive and hopeful. Very often attitude becomes reality and thus I am hopeful too.

The parade in Huntington this year is on March 11th. Let's hope for nice weather. Since the parade goes right past the Bakery I haven't missed one in 23 years. I remember watching my boys marching with one organization or the other. Now a days I get to see many a familiar face and many in local organizations that the bakery counts as friends.

Come in during the parade and mention this e-mail to receive one free coffee to warm you up. You may want to forgo the free coffee though and purchase our killer homemade hot chocolate. It has become a Reinwald's Bakery tradition to offer our special recipe hot chocolate on the day of the parade. This hot chocolate uses 70% dark chocolate and includes our fresh heavy cream. This is the heavy cream we use for our whipped cream. It is different from what you see in the supermarket because it contains more butter fat for that rich mouth feel. That is what makes our Strawberry Shortcake so good. My son Thomas is a hot chocolate aficionado and says this is the best ever.

It is listed below, but worth mentioning here. On Sunday March 18th, there will be an inter-generational concert at Huntington Hugh School. The Senior Pops Orchestra of Long Island joins with the Huntington High School Orchestra for an afternoon of light classics and popular show tunes. Mrs. Reinwald plays viola for the Senior Pops and one sales person, Lauren, plays the same for Huntington High School. It will be special to see them playing side by side. Don't miss it!

Hope to see you at the parade,

Rich Reinwald
Reinwald's Bakery

From the Reinwald Home Kitchen

Corned Beef and Cabbage

This month's recipe is simple, but fitting for the season and a perfect match with our Rye bread which just happens to be on special this month. I like to get my corned beef from R+S Meats. It always seems to be more tender.

1 piece corned beef

1 Teaspoon pickling spice

1 Bay leaf

1 small head of cabbage

1 Potato per person

Put Corned Beef in large pot and just cover meat with water. You really don't want to have too much water over the level of the meat. To properly braise you need room for the steam in the pot.

Add the pickling spice and bay leaf.

Simmer - not boil - for approx. 3 hours for 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 lb. piece of meat.

With a half hour left cut cabbage into wedges and add to pot.

I used to add the potatoes to the pot also, but now I prefer to cook them on the side.

If you cook this the day before and cool the beef you can slice it nice and thin. Perfect for sandwiches, on rye bread of course.

Things to do in Huntington

Huntington's 78th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade

March 11, 2012 @ 2pm

The Parade begins just north of the Huntington train station on New York Ave and ends at St. Patrick's Church in the village. Stop by the bakery to warm up with a cup of our famous St. Patty's Day Hot Cocoa made with real heavy cream and imported Belgian chocolate. Don't forget about our Irish themed cupcakes, shamrock cookies and leprechaun cakes! Remember everyone is Irish on this special day.

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Huntington High School Inter-Generational Concert

March 18, 2011 @ 2pm

Come see Carole Reinwald and Lauren perform with the Senior Pops Orchestra and the Huntington High School Orchestra at Huntington High School.

Program Notes

For more Huntington events check out these sites:

Huntington Arts Council

Town of Huntington - Events Calendar

The Village Tattler - Huntington's source for news, gossip, opinion, community, restaurants, entertainment.

Huntington Patch - Local news and events

Book signings at Book Revue - View upcoming authors here

St. Patrick's Day Fun Facts

New York City's first recorded St. Patrick's Day Parade was held in 1762 and today is the largest St. Patrick's Day Parade in the world, larger than the one in Dublin.

The first Huntington St. Patrick's parade was held in 1935 and was the first such parade on Long Island.

Corned beef got its name from the corn-sized crystals of salt used to brine the beef brisket. This was before the time of the refrigerator.

Recent Cake Creations
Spaghetti Cake Baby Shower Bear Cake

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